340 GENTIANACEAE 



1. Isis. Merley Wood, flore pleno, Sir J. Banks. 



2. Ock. Milton, Bosicell. Little Heudred, Lomax. Near Abingdon, 



F. Stone. Goosey, Wait. Lockinge, planted, Sunningwell and 

 Baywox'th. 



3. Pang, Langley, W. M. Rogers. Tilehurst. De la Bere. Pangbourn, 



Tufnail. Near Cold Ash. 



4. Kennet. Kintbury. Stockcross. Benham, Reeks in Britt. Contr. 



Coley Park, in great plenty, Tvfnail. Wickham, Mrs. Batson. 

 Abundant in a coppice from Greenham Common to Lower 

 Farm, Bicheno, 1. c. 



5. Loddon. Koad between Easthampstead and Wokingham, Penmj. 



Abundant at Park Place, Stanton. Wargrave. Arborfield. 

 Ascot. Windsor Park. 

 It never produces seed, so far as my experience goes, and I think 

 Avas originally introduced in all its Berkshire stations. 



V. minor occurs, in a more or less naturalized state, in all the 

 bordering counties, 



GENTIANACEAE, Dumort. Anal. Fam. 20. 25 (1829). 



BLACKSTONIA, Huds. Fl. Angl. 146 (1762% 

 Chlora, Adans. Fam. ii. 503 (1763). 

 B. perfoliata, Huds. 1. c. Yellow Centaury, Perfoliate Yellow-icort. 



Chlora perfoliata, Linn. Syst. ed. 12, 267. Gentiana perfoliata, Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 232 (1753). Centaurium parvum luteuin Lobelii, Gor. Em. 547. 



Top. Bot. 280, Syme, E, B. vi. 72, t, 913, Nyman, 501. Fl. Oxf. 196. 

 Native. Pascual, Dry banks on chalk or sometimes on clay. Local 



and uncommon. A, June-September. 

 First record. Small Centorie, with a yellow flower, IIS. in Lyte's Herball, 



1660. Chlora perfoliata, Mr. Fardon in Bot. Guide, 1805. 



1. Isis. Eynsham, between the third and fourth milestone from 



Oxford, in a field on the right-hand side of the road going from 

 Botley to Eynsham, Bemcell, 1812, In an old stone-pit between 

 the old and the new road from Oxford to Eynsham, nearly 

 opposite to Wytham Wood, About Appleton and Eaton, Miss 

 Hoskins, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. n. 69 (1834). 



2. Ock. Marcham, Walker. Groweth on ye side of the hill beyond 



Hinksey, MS. note in Lyte. Railwaj^ side near Upton. 



3. Pang. Near Reading, Fardon, I. c. Streatley, Pawplin. Shooter's 



Hill. Sulham, Tvfnail. Near Basildon. 

 5. Loddon. Bisham Wood, Mill. Park Place, Stanton. 

 Bl%ckstonia, a fast-decreasing species in Berkshire, is recorded for all 

 the bordering counties. 



